Hospice & Palliative Care – End Term Test |
Case-Based and Theoretical Qs with Answers
June 2016 - ✔✔Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called medical assistance
in dying (MAID) and it first became legal along with assisted suicide in June 2016
In 2007, x% of Canadians cared for a loved one with a serious health problem in the last 12
months - ✔✔23%; 22% reported missing one or more months of work. These numbers
represent a significant loss of productivity to the Canadian economy.
Although palliative care is for everyone, x% of palliative patients are seniors - ✔✔75%
There are at least x% of Canadians who do not have access to palliative care. - ✔✔70%
Ontario Palliative Care Mandates: - ✔✔• Shift care of persons from hospitals to home or
setting of choice (e.g., hospice)
• Enhance an interdisciplinary team approach to community care
• Better coordination and integration of local services.
• Health care consent and Advanced care planning best practice
how many patients had at least one unplanned ER visit in their last 30 days of life? - ✔✔62.7%
how many patients received palliative care home services in their last month of life? - ✔✔43%
how many received a visit from doctor in last month of life? - ✔✔34%
how many died in hospital? - ✔✔65%
, regional priorities - ✔✔Broaden access and timeliness of access:
• After-hours access
Strengthen caregiver supports:
• Maintain palliative care consultation teams
• Increase capacity & designated staffing resources.
Improve integration and continuity across settings:
• Standardized practices
• Interprofessional primary chronic disease management teams
Strengthen accountability by introducing mechanisms
• Shared documentation and outcome tracking.
how many years will we remain under LHIN? - ✔✔next 2-5 years
Previously shared budget between LHIN and Cancer Care Ontario with equal accountability
to both organizations. Now Cancer Care Ontario has been - ✔✔rolled into the new Ontario
Health model.
LTC monthly cost: governments pays ___, client pays___ - ✔✔government covers 2/3 of
monthly cost, client covers 1/3
Medical Assistance in Death (MAiD) HCPs should make sure: - ✔✔Client is making informed
decision, HCP provides education on all services of palliative care, pharmacists: pain
management and side effect management, client has weighed all the benefits and risks
MAiD - ✔✔Medical Assistance in Death
OCP Document July 2016 (MAiD): Circumstances where a medical practitioner or nurse
practitioner, at an individual's request - ✔✔(a) administers a substance that causes an
individual's death; or
(b) prescribes a substance for an individual to self-administer to cause their own death.
Case-Based and Theoretical Qs with Answers
June 2016 - ✔✔Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called medical assistance
in dying (MAID) and it first became legal along with assisted suicide in June 2016
In 2007, x% of Canadians cared for a loved one with a serious health problem in the last 12
months - ✔✔23%; 22% reported missing one or more months of work. These numbers
represent a significant loss of productivity to the Canadian economy.
Although palliative care is for everyone, x% of palliative patients are seniors - ✔✔75%
There are at least x% of Canadians who do not have access to palliative care. - ✔✔70%
Ontario Palliative Care Mandates: - ✔✔• Shift care of persons from hospitals to home or
setting of choice (e.g., hospice)
• Enhance an interdisciplinary team approach to community care
• Better coordination and integration of local services.
• Health care consent and Advanced care planning best practice
how many patients had at least one unplanned ER visit in their last 30 days of life? - ✔✔62.7%
how many patients received palliative care home services in their last month of life? - ✔✔43%
how many received a visit from doctor in last month of life? - ✔✔34%
how many died in hospital? - ✔✔65%
, regional priorities - ✔✔Broaden access and timeliness of access:
• After-hours access
Strengthen caregiver supports:
• Maintain palliative care consultation teams
• Increase capacity & designated staffing resources.
Improve integration and continuity across settings:
• Standardized practices
• Interprofessional primary chronic disease management teams
Strengthen accountability by introducing mechanisms
• Shared documentation and outcome tracking.
how many years will we remain under LHIN? - ✔✔next 2-5 years
Previously shared budget between LHIN and Cancer Care Ontario with equal accountability
to both organizations. Now Cancer Care Ontario has been - ✔✔rolled into the new Ontario
Health model.
LTC monthly cost: governments pays ___, client pays___ - ✔✔government covers 2/3 of
monthly cost, client covers 1/3
Medical Assistance in Death (MAiD) HCPs should make sure: - ✔✔Client is making informed
decision, HCP provides education on all services of palliative care, pharmacists: pain
management and side effect management, client has weighed all the benefits and risks
MAiD - ✔✔Medical Assistance in Death
OCP Document July 2016 (MAiD): Circumstances where a medical practitioner or nurse
practitioner, at an individual's request - ✔✔(a) administers a substance that causes an
individual's death; or
(b) prescribes a substance for an individual to self-administer to cause their own death.
